Morris is keen to continue the impressive growth of NuoDB for the foreseeable future, and sees Dublin’s Dogpatch Labs as the best place to do that, with his company seeking to fill 50 roles over the next few years.

“We’ve got some big customers in Europe and they really care about having technical people nearby, so it’s a natural place be,” explains the man whose experience in Ireland dates back to his days as CEO of Iona Technologies.

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There are two really exciting places to be if you’re a software developer, according to Morris – distributed systems and database. “We’re the guys doing both of those things at the same time.”

I asked what research his company had done into the Irish labour market scene, and whether he and his team would need to hire from abroad. Not a worry, it seems.

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“Trinity has its distributed systems group. One of the leading, if not the first, distributed systems computer science groups around. So it’s a natural fit from that perspective. We’re looking for people who have these skills to take on some of the hardest challenges of distributed computing.

Barry Morris, NuoDB’s CEO, announced 50 jobs in the company’s new European software development centre in Dublin

“We spent months looking at it. I was at Iona Technology years back so I already know a bit about Dublin. We’re very confident that we can find the right sort of people here.”

NuoDB has doubled its workforce in the past year, with hopes of that growth continuing apace in a US$35bn industry that Morris considers “infinite”.

Of course it’s not just the availability of skilled staff that is key to a new operation’s success in Ireland. There’s also the problem of getting them in the door. The next step for NuoDB will be trying to do just that.

Gordon joined Silicon Republic in October 2014 as a journalist, moving on to a new position as senior communications and content executive at NDRC in August 2017.
Unafraid of heights or spiders, Gordon spends most of his time avoiding conversations about music, appreciating even the least creative pun and rueing the day he panicked when meeting Paul McGrath.
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